It appears that Pentax IS coming out with a new lens line (or two)!
The SMC Pentax-D FA appears to be the new top-of-the-line lens series. It is designed for digital quality but also covers an entire 35mm negative! The new SMC Pentax-D FA 50mm & 100mm macros are just the first to be announced.
Not only is B&H short of FA lenses but KEH in Atlanta & Adorama in NYC are short or out entirely.
Might Pentax release an entirely new lens line at Photokina? Some of us oldtimers remember Pentax releasing an entire new lens line in the past.
Alex Grigolia
On Wednesday, September 15, 2004, at 02:20 AM, Alin Flaider wrote:
The Maxxum 7D with its anti-shake technology looks like a remarkable
come back for Minolta, now that it revives with it its entire lens line:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04091504km7d.asp
If the A/S proves effective (it seems to have some limitations
depending on the focal length, magnification factor) then it's going
to be a hard blow to C/N. [And we can be happy that P was once again
right to wait for the technology to mature. :oT]
In the meantime, at B&H virtually all Pentax 35mm lenses are out-of-stock or back-ordered. I wonder what is P up to (it took too long for the story of quality problems or sick Nguyen to stick)? So is P going to replace the entire FA and build a new system, digital oriented? Will there be any primes left other than limiteds and macros? Are we going to count just ten lenses, half of them DA? Is there any commitment from P part to the full frame in the foreseeable future?
Servus, Alin
